Marion,
The place that you can set in Qimage to cut off after the print, is located :
The right click menu when mouse is hovering over the upper right preview panel. It's about 3/4 down in the list.
It's called, Remove white space at the bottom of the page"

When you click it, instructions pop out for you.

Fred

I applied the remove white space and did a quick print but it didn't remove the white space. Any suggestions?
Marion

It does remove the white space, but let's be sure that the driver is obeying the signals.  Look at your paper size right before you tell it to remove the white space.  Then use that feature and see if the paper size (length) changes.  If not, the driver just isn't "listening".  If it does, then it's working and your print should be the length specified above the preview page.  Keep in mind that if you have more than one page, it can only set the paper length as short as the longest page: that is... the page that has the print that ends the farthest down the page.

Mike

I replied while you responded Mike. Let me go back and see if it changes.

Reading the thread subject line I thought this could be a HP Z user in trouble. It is.

When Mike made this Qimage feature I checked it with the Z3200, it did work with the PS3 driver more or less but not at all with the PCL3 driver if I recall it correctly.

http://ddisoftware.com/tech/qimage-ultimate/v2011-104-issuescomments/

It is not like the auto trimming you will find in RIPs or HP Utility.

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Marion,

I am not that familiar with the Z6100/6200 models but it must be the Z6100-PS version you have given the features you mention. The Z3200-PS that I have comes with the PS3, HPGL-2 and you can also use the PCL3 driver with it. I never print from HP's Printer Utility but I guess it uses the PS3 driver actually. I know the HPGL-2 driver is activated but I never encountered a driver with that name, I thought it was just part of the other drivers. The HPGL-2 driver does improve the total print length for the PCL3 driver for example, my plain Z3100 does not go beyond 3 meters length, the Z3200-PS does. Correct me if I am wrong.

What would be interesting though more complex is using Qimage's image nesting etc in Print To File and print the assembled print page image through HP Print Utility. You would need a precise control on image/print resolutions and on the color management but Print Utility should cut right after the loaded Qimage Tiff.

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Marion,

Did you actually hit the printer icon to print, the one in the middle of the three printer icons?
You will in default find the file in the images file you opened to set the images in the print queue, with a name with a Q suffix. It should appear among the thumbnails of that file in the Qimage filer window, that one refreshes automatically in this case.

I did not expect that you went directly for that complex method so to check on some aspects: I would use Qimage's color management, extrapolation, print sharpening etc and make little use of HP's driver settings if possible. That means you should set Print to File at either 300 PPI or 600 PPI, Tiff, use the printer settings options and then Qimage color management on. Print to file size that it fits economically within the Z6100 roll width without print margins. HP Printer Utility without any color management done to the file (I even do not know whether that is possible) and a print quality setting that asks for either 300 or 600 PPI, print size at 100%, 1:1, original size, whatever they use in terminology. There are a lot of things that can go wrong that way. You could direct the Qimage Print to File saving to a place where HP Printer Utility normally expect files.

I prefer to keep the Qimage route and forget about the auto trimming function. When the images are nested on a larger print page I right click on the print page preview window and select Edit print page to see what could be trimmed at the underside and adjust the print page size in the driver accordingly. True that is also taking time but a safer route.

All written down from memory or imagination (Z6100) I can not check this right now.


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